Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World

Every successful business will have to make shifts along the way. Will yours recognize the right moment to do so or wait until it's too late?

Shift Ahead

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention

A nine step-guide to mastering viral content, branding and outwitting social media algorithms for marketers, entrepreneurs and aspiring celebrities from the CEO of Shareability.

Break Through the Noise

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11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom

Many Americans view Wall Street as a bastion of greed and corruption; a place that attracts people who don't deserve the money they make but are willing to break the law to get more of it. Yet for all their mistrust, many of these same Americans believe that Wall Street is essential for our economy to function. How do we fix it? Send in the Marines.

Known for its exemplary discipline, the Marine Corps ensures victory by obeying key commands, such as: establish clear, tactical objectives; know the terrain before heading into battle; identify and capitalize on combat advantages; control timing; leverage complementary skills within the unit; negotiate from a morally defensible position; harness strength of leadership to craft a bulletproof plan. Ken Marlin served ten years' active duty as a Marine officer before taking on the financial sector. He's seen this program of pride, professionalism, and fidelity work - from the battlefield to the boardroom.

Marlin is no socialist: he's a capitalist and risk-taker who enjoys earning money for himself and his clients. InThe Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street, he teaches you the Marine Corps way to win on Wall Street and on Main Street: to sacrifice short-term gains for the long-term interests of your clients and your company. Deploying Marine-tested tactics, he engineers lasting, honorable success while lowering the ethical cost of doing business. That's the Marine Corps way.

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

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Texas

Learn at home with help from The Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar using her acclaimed McKellar Math books! Fairies, butterflies, and magic help to make this math-focused picture book positively enchanting! 

Join ten flower friends for a night of excitement that mixes a little math with a lot of magic. As each flower turns into a butterfly, children will discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower's dream come true. (And keep an eye out for the adorable caterpillar who wishes he could fly, too!)

In this, the second book in the McKellar Math line, actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar once again sneaks in secret addition and subtraction concepts to help make your child smarter and uses her proven math success to show children that loving numbers is as easy as a wave of a wand and a BING BANG BOO! 

"[Danica McKellar's] bringing her love of numbers to children everywhere." --Brightly on Goodnight, Numbers

"Danica McKellar is now on a mission to make math fun for even the youngest of kids." --L.A. Parent Magazine

Ten Magic Butterflies

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Business & Economics

How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership from the Keel Up

A former U.S. Navy commander draws on interviews with leaders from every branch of the U.S. military and the business world to discuss how to honor agreements with a staff, develop employees, and work on one's own terms.

Get Your Ship Together

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Rhonda Byrne

The worldwide bestselling phenomenon that has helped millions tap the power of the law that governs all our lives to create—intentionally and effortlessly—a joyful life.

In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller.

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions, and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.

The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible

Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity, and mind-dazzling in its ability to really work, The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom and spirituality, the riveting, practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives.

The Secret

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Ohio

The Moves and Mayhem Behind Selling Your Way to the Top As Told by 34 Industry Leaders

Success Secrets of Sales Superstars

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Lydia Fenet

Oregon

Command an Audience and Sell Your Way to Success

In The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You, Lydia Fenet takes you on her twenty-year journey from intern to managing director and global head of strategic partnerships at Christie's Auction House. Lydia shares the revolutionary sales approach she has crafted over the years that has not only shaped her career, but helped her raise more than half a billion dollars for nonprofits around the world.

This is an approach that will empower you to sell your way to success in business and in life. For example, you'll learn how to create your own "Strike Method" or signature move to help you feel confident entering any situation. Combining case studies and personal stories, Lydia also shares tips from some of the most powerful and successful women in business, fashion, journalism, sports, and the arts.

This book will show you how to take your career to the next level, whether it's overcoming your fear of asking for something or bridging a wage gap. Lydia has been there and come back more powerful than ever. Inspiring and encouraging, Lydia's hard-won advice will help you walk into any room with the confidence of a leader and motivate others to find their voice as well. Get ready to embrace your natural strengths, map your career, and take ownership of your life.

The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You

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A Revolutionary Approach to Launching Your Brand Online

"A candid, behind-the-scenes look at how successful direct-to-consumer brands such as Hubble are launching their businesses on platforms like Facebook and Google."--Lisa Sherman, president and CEO, the Ad Council LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - "A must-read for anyone interested in starting a new business."--Moiz Ali, CEO, Native E-commerce startups have exploded in the marketplace, selling merchandise and services directly to consumers, often through mobile phones. They skip the middlemen, avoid the lower margins of retail channels of distribution, strike deals directly with manufacturers and suppliers, and, in doing so, save consumers money. Among the companies that are part of this e-commerce revolution are Dollar Shave Club, Casper, Quip, Peloton, and Hubble Contacts. In Selling Naked, Hubble Contacts co-founder and co-CEO Jesse Horwitz shows entrepreneurs and enterprise companies alike precisely how to conceive, launch, and grow an e-commerce brand by using paid marketing social media channels. Horwitz shows entrepreneurs how to test consumer interest before spending a dime by placing mock ads on Facebook and other social media. Using this method, Hubble Contacts got an astonishing two thousand signups in four days, and as a result, raised $3.5 million in seed money. Hubble ran a second experiment to see if consumers would actually sign up for the service, which led to a second multimillion-dollar investment. Horwitz shows how startups can cut through the metrics bullshit to focus on the one metric that really matters; how to use third-party tools rather than build everything from scratch; and how to tell a great story to investors and frame your digital offering. In addition to running Hubble, Jesse Horwitz now works with established Fortune 500 enterprises to help build their e-commerce brands within the landscape of a larger retail environment. Selling Naked is the definitive playbook on how to start up a successful direct-to-consumer business.

Selling Naked

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100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds





"Straight Talk for Startups memorializes age-old best practices and empowers both experienced and new investment professionals to beat the odds."--David Krane, CEO, Google Ventures

"Straight Talk for Startups is filled with real, raw, and fact-based 'rules of the road' that you need to know when diving into our ultra-competitive startup world. A must read and a re-read!"--Tony Fadell, Coinventor of the iPod/iPhone & Founder of Nest Labs

Veteran venture capitalist Randy Komisar and finance executive Jantoon Reigersman share no-nonsense, counterintuitive guidelines to help anyone build a successful startup.

Over the course of their careers, Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman continue to see startups crash and burn because they forget the timeless lessons of entrepreneurship.

But, as Komisar and Reigersman show, you can beat the odds if you quickly learn what insiders know about what it takes to build a healthy foundation for a thriving venture. In Straight Talk for Startups they walk budding entrepreneurs through 100 essential rules--from pitching your idea to selecting investors to managing your board to deciding how and when to achieve liquidity. Culled from their own decades of experience, as well as the experiences of their many successful colleagues and friends, the rules are organized under broad topics, from "Mastering the Fundamentals" and "Selecting the Right Investors," to "The Ideal Fundraise," "Building and Managing Effective Boards," and "Achieving Liquidity."

Vital rules you'll find in Straight Talk for Startups include:

 * The best ideas originate from founders who are users
 * Create two business plans: an execution plan and an aspirational plan
 * Net income is an option, but cash flow is a fact
 * Don't accept money from strangers
 * Personal wealth doesn't equal good investing
 * Small boards are better than big ones
 * Add independent board members for expertise and objectivity
 * Too many unanimous board decisions are a sign of trouble
 * Choose an acquirer, don't wait to be chosen
 * Learn the rules by heart so you know when to break them

Filled with helpful real-life examples and specific, actionable advice, Straight Talk for Startups is the ideal handbook for anyone running, working for, or thinking about creating a startup, or just curious about what makes high-potential ventures tick.

Straight Talk for Startups

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Stuff Every Man Should Know

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A Story about Finding the Fortune in Your Own Backyard

Jake is in trouble. He's facing eviction in less than 30 days, the bill for 50,000USD in overdue student loans is almost due, and he might lose his job. To top it off, with everything collapsing around him, he might lose his girfriend, too. In search of answers, Jake reluctantly attends a weekly group meeting where everyone in the group is trying to create a lucrative side hustle. They can only spend up to [500 before earning a profit. Jake learns how to make [1,000 in a single weekend, and ultimately how to discover the untapped skills he needs to take control of his finances and his life.

The Money Tree

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The Case for a 24/6 Lifestyle

What if the real secret to

greater productivity, happiness

and success is a habit that is thousands of years old?



Productivity has become an international obsession. We celebrate a work culture where people boast of long working hours, their extreme schedules and how little they sleep. A constant stream of emails, texts, tweets and more keeps us connected every minute and we rarely put our phones down. Every moment needs to be maximized and no time can be wasted.

And yet most of us also feel something is wrong. All of these attempts at optimizing business and life aren't really making us happier. Ironically, it might not be mak-ing us all that productive either. In this groundbreaking book, noted entrepreneur and money manager Aaron Edelheit breaks down the myths around productivity and offers a startlingly simple solution: the Sabbath.



Through his personal journey of discovering the joy of taking a "hard break" of one day a week to reset, Edelheit profiles not only his own life transformation, but how this same practice has been changing the lives of well known entrepreneurs, celebrities and politicians alike.

For anyone who has ever struggled to find a good balance between life and work, this book offers an essential roadmap for how to make the right choices, attain more success, put life back into perspective and gain more happiness all by taking a hard break for yourself.

The Hard Break

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Making Your Life Make Sense

The On-Purpose Person

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#hardcover #success #selfhelp #inspirational #motivation

North Carolina

How to Cut the Busy B. S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life

Life doesn't have to be mediocre! Every moment of every day, you can choose to be extraordinary. You can choose to become someone you're incredibly proud to be, who accomplishes amazing goals and achieves greatness. With insights from the greatest and most successful minds the world has ever known, Wired to Win guides you through the disease of averageness so you can finally be free of the mediocrity trap. Leaders and teachers from every culture have attempted to inform the masses how they can be extraordinary; this book tells you what they all want you to know.

What Extraordinary People Know

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Paul Orfalea

Ann Marsh

Like new hardcover book, with the exception of the front jacket cover having a slight ripple at the top and bottom and a small tear on the back, as well as writing on the very first page.

Maryland

Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies

The founder of Kinko's describes how a hyperactive, dyslexic young man transformed a small copy shop into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year company, explaining how he used his learning disabilities as opportunities and created an unconventional, compassionate, partner-driven corporation acclaimed as one of the best places to work in America.

Copy This!

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#success #women #executives #fortune1000


California

A Road Map for Success from America's Leading Women Executives

"Going to the Top" provides a new, inspiring roadmap for success for executive women every rung of the corporate ladder. Carol A. Gallagher has conducted extensive, nationally recognized research on businesswomen at every level of corporate management. Combining this research with her own experience in helping clients achieve breakthrough performance in their careers, Gallagher shows women how they can have it all by being themselves and learning how to shatter the myths of the corporate world that have kept women from breaking through the glass ceiling in the past. This book tells women what works, focusing on the lessons other women have learned on their way to the top and the strategies that made their success possible. It will give women 6 proven strategies to help them improve their careers as well as interactive exercises that will show them how to create their own roadmaps for success.

Going to the Top

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Kentucky

Now, discover your strengths

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Living and Leading with Heart





A leadership consultant and neuropsychologist identify the universal habits of the heart and mind--the keys to unlocking our true potential, creating our best selves and eliminating behavior patterns that hold us back. 



Why is it so hard for leaders to coach employees who are struggling Why do we repeat the same mistakes and negative behaviors

Common wisdom says you always have a choice in how you react or respond. But, as corporate consultant Stephen Klemich and clinical psychologist Mara Klemich contend, until you recognize why you make choices, and how the heart and the brain work together to shape your behavior, you can't change long-ingrained patterns and discover your best self.

The Klemichs have developed a model backed by extensive research and data, and paired it with character-led personal development, to help you answer the "Why" and eliminate behavior that is "below the line."

In Above the Line, they argue that that the quality of your life flows from the attitudes of your heart. Offering wise, compassionate, and practical advice, this book explores the deep, fundamental drivers of human behavior that exist within your heart--the seat of your character. It reveals that all of these behaviors can be explained by four principles--humility, love, pride, and fear--which influence every facet of your life, for better or for worse.

We are all designed for greatness, but so often our best self is pitted against our worst. The pressures of life are pulling our character below the line while our authentic self is drawing us to live above the line. When you fully understand that the four principles are at the root of your behavior, you can begin the journey to become your best self and navigate life more effectively and successfully. Filled with proven strategies, Above the Line will create lasting changes in your behavior and improve your life personally and professionally--so you can make a positive impact on the world around you.

Above the Line

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Courtney E. Martin

Georgia

Reinventing the American Dream

If you are one of the fortunate few with a rewarding career, a fulfilling family life and time to pursue leisure activities you find joyful, then entrepreneur Courtney E. Martin's terrific book will confirm what you probably already know. But if you are among the restless majority searching for meaning in life, you may find that Martin's insights perfectly capture your feelings. She writes of the growing discontent many Americans feel as they work hard, make money and buy things, yet sense that something is missing. Martin contends that happiness cannot come from materialism and routine; instead, she says, it grows as you identify and follow your core values and connect with others. Many people now reject long hours of work in favor of home life or creative pursuits. Her grounded, perceptive descriptions capture a malaise that plagues many, and that you might be able to address, first, simply by unplugging from your cellphone. getAbstract recommends her ideas to those seeking contentment and peace of mind.

The New Better Off

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Donald Kornblet

Missouri

Business Success Secrets

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Gallup

Louisiana

The Revolutionary Gallup Program That Shows You How to Develop Your Unique Talents and Strengths, 20th Anniversary Edition

Outlines a program developed by Gallup experts and based on a study of more than two million people to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes. 100,000 first printing.

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Joel Steckel; Allen Adamson

Shift Ahead

Tim Staples; Josh Young

Break Through the Noise

Ken Marlin

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

Danica McKellar; Jen Bricking (Illustrator)

Ten Magic Butterflies

D. Michael Abrashoff

Get Your Ship Together

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

Barry J. Farber; Robert L. Shook

Success Secrets of Sales Superstars

Lydia Fenet

The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You

Jesse Horwitz

Selling Naked

Randy Komisar; Jantoon Reigersman (As told to)

Straight Talk for Startups

Brett Cohen

Stuff Every Man Should Know

Chris Guillebeau

The Money Tree

Aaron Edelheit

The Hard Break

Kevin W. McCarthy

The On-Purpose Person

Anthony Moore

What Extraordinary People Know

Paul Orfalea; Ann Marsh

Copy This!

Carol A. Gallagher; Susan K. Golant

Going to the Top

Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton

Now, discover your strengths

Tommy Spaulding (Foreword by); Stephen Klemich; Mara Klemich

Above the Line

Courtney E. Martin

The New Better Off

Donald Kornblet

Business Success Secrets

Gallup

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Bill Wooditch

Fail More

Nikolaus Lang, Jim Hemerling, Arindam Bhattacharya

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